Australia and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific. (
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Two Americans held in Iran for the last 18 months on suspicion of espionage pleaded not guilty in court on Sunday on the first day of their closed-door trial, state television reported. (
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Israeli journlist Anat Kam was found guilty Sunday by a court after a plea-bargain deal in which she admitted to having leaked secret military documents to a leading newspaper. (more)
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American citizen Alan Gross, who is accused of spying, is facing a 20-year prison sentence in Cuba for spying. Prosecutors in Havana have claimed Gross plotted against the state by importing satellite communications equipment and using it to gather secret information within the country.
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The Taliban have killed four people in northwest Pakistan after accusing them of spying for the United States, local officials have said. (more)
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Ex-Taliban spy raking in aid money... With his fondness for American rap music and Beyoncé, Fareed Hidayati, sporting cropped hair, a clean-shaven face and speaking in a thick British accent does not seem like a typical Taliban spy. (
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A Chinese internet spy ring has penetrated Britain's government computer networks with malicious software, the Guardian reported. British foreign secretary William Hague told a security conference in Munich that his office repelled an attack last month by 'a hostile state intelligence agency'. (
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| On August 20, 1940, Mercader plunged an ice axe into Trotsky's head. He died a day later. |
The Russian spy behind Leon Trotsky's assassination was a James Bond-style agent who plotted the attack from a US pharmacy, according to a new book.
Josef Grigulevich, the KGB agent who planned the Bolshevik revolutionary's 1940 assassination first established a safe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the book by EB Held claims.
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This Spy Robot Will Always Find You—Unless You Stop Breathing
This little fellow is the TiaLinx Cougar20-H, a surveillance robot. He is capable of detecting any sneaky human presence—even through thick concrete walls—by using a ultra-wideband radio frequency sensor array and focusing on biorhythmic patterns—such as breathing. (
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An amateur video showing the arrest in Egypt of an alleged spy belonging to the Israeli General Staff Reconnaissance Unit, the Sayeret Matkal, indicates how worried Tel Aviv is by the turmoil engulfing the Mubarak regime and suggests that attempts are underway by outside forces to destabilize the popular revolution. (
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An Israeli court sentenced an Israeli-Arab human rights activist to nine years in prison on Sunday after convicting him last year of spying for the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. (
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he quit the job, citing "personal reasons."
', by Mr Held, who is now director of intelligence at the US Department of Energy, appears to confirm years of speculation about a spy hideaway there. (
